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Apr. 23, 2021 12:31 AM
About two weeks ago, the prime minister tried to appoint his eunuch, National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat, chief of the Shin Bet security service. Defense Minister Benny Gantz blocked the move, forcing Benjamin Netanyahu to extend the term of outgoing Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman by several months. Ben-Shabbat was the “muscle” sent by Netanyahu to apply pressure to certain rabbis so that they in turn would pressure Naftali Bennett, for some short-term political need (who can remember which one?).
That same week we learned that the State Prosecutor’s Office had closed its investigation of three Shin Bet agents who ordered female soldiers to conduct a vaginal search of a Palestinian detainee. Per the usual practice by the prosecutor’s office in such cases, first they killed the investigation with delaying tactics – they fudged the case for four years – and then they announced that
It started with a Palestinian woman s arrest It ended with Israeli officers investigated for rape
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Israeli police say a Palestinian jumped to his death amid chase His father has another theory
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In attempt to stem violence, Israeli army brass meet with radical settlers
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Feb. 11, 2021
Following a drawn out legal process, Israel s High Court of Justice on Wednesday struck down a directive to review Israel s police misconduct investigation unit. The order, issued by Netanyahu ally, Public Security Minister Amir Ohana, during his term as justice minister, was accused of being politically motivated to secure votes for Likud in the March 2020 election.
In rejecting the order, the court granted the petition of private citizens including the organization Guardians of Israeli Democracy. The petition states that Ohana’s order was motivated by a desire to attract the votes of Ethiopian Israelis in the March 2020 election, in the wake of public outrage following the murder of Solomon Teka, an unarmed Ethiopian teenager, by a police officer.